Schlagwort-Archive: organized crime

What’s wrong with Oleg Deripaska?

On the 19th of October reports came up that the FBI raided US homes of Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska on charges like money laundering and blackmail. Earlier claims of the Treasury Department emphasized that he threatened the lives of business rivals, ordered the murder of a businessman, took part in extortion, racketeering and illegal wiretapping and belongs to a Russian organized crime group. But Deripaska who defined his role once as acting unseparable from the Russian state took part in a multilevel Russian influence operation around the 2016 US presidential election. His business partner Paul Manafort who owed him several million Dollar was for several months Donald Trump’s campaign manager. When Manafort lobbyed for the Putin friendly Ukrainian government prior to 2014, he was joined by former Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. I did a lot of research on Deripaskas network in Austria and the covert Russian strategy unfolding with it; another word for it would be „multilevel Russian influence operation“.

In 2007 Deripaska visited Vienna with Vladimir Putin to acquire shares of construction company Strabag; he demanded a seat in Strabag’s advisory board for Siegfried Wolf who was the CEO of Magna where Deripaska also became partner. The then chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer in 2010 was elected chairman of the advisory board, which Wolf left in 2015. The shares which Deripaska bought were from Raiffeisen who still is partner in Strabag; the deputy chairman of the advisory board is Erwin Hameseder from Raiffeisen. The screenshot below shows a photo of Deripaska the Denver Gazette first used in front of the GAZ factory which was once owned by the Russian state when Magna in 1998 began to cooperate with it. Now Siegfried Wolf is Deripaskas business partner and has bought the MAN factory in Steyr in Upper Austria. Gusenbauer took part in Manafort’s Ukraine Lobbying and in Austria he and Wolf pushed Rene Benko of Signa Holding who bought the Chrysler Building and was represented by Skadden, another Ukraine Lobbying Partner.

Deripaska and GAZ

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What Obamagate means to the world

Mainstream media bash President Donald Trump because he tweets about Obamagate and retweets QAnon followers. This should divert attention from the question what Obamagate is about and if there might be reason to exonerate General Michael Flynn. In reality the whole Russiagate narrative turns into the opposite revealing other collusion with ties to European ties to Russia. After the election campaign 2016 the meme was created „they never thought she could lose“ meaning Hillary Clinton. Then came the „revenge“ of a „shadow president“ Barack Obama who followed Trump’s travels abroad and his political themes. An astroturf „movement“ against Trump was created with money from George Soros and others and the „Women’s March against Washington“ (in many cities in the world), „Muslim Ban protests“ and of course demonstrations on inauguration day itself and afterwards. In autumn 2017 the first cryptic post appeared on message boards, signed with Q. As Q stayed anonymous, users began to call „him“ QAnon and started to research what could be the deeper meaning of „his“ messages.

It took not much time until the growing Q community was labelled conspiracy theorists which is now an „argument“ against them in many countries. Some indeed believe things Q never „said“ but they had to find their own way through a jungle of disinformation in mainstream media; they must learn to put puzzle pieces together. At the moment media try to frame Attorney General Bill Barr by cutting an answer he gave in an interview. He said that history is written by the winner  – to help Trump against Obama? – but added that he had to follow the rule of law. Some users speak of a „Clinton Body Count“ with f.e. Seth Rich who worked for the DNC and was killed in 2016; he gave emails to Wikileaks so there was no Russian „DNC hack“ as a source for this leak. Russians – the GRU, the military intelligence – are hacking but they were not responsible for DNC emails at Wikileaks. When the new Austrian government was formed in January the server of the foreign ministry was hacked and the attack lasted for many days.

When Donald Trump tweets … 

 

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Vienna and the Trump Impeachment

The coming Impeachment procedure has more to do with Vienna than you might think. It is no coincidence that the Austrian capital is called the „city of spies“. When we investigate ties of Donald Trump and his associates to Russia and Ukraine, Vienna and several intelligence agencies play a vital role. To make the picture more complex there is also a probable mob aspect and lobbying for Boeing, the rival of European company Airbus. Latest news reveal that the Sowjet born Jewish businessman Lev Parnas met oligarch Dmytro Firtash several times in Vienna last summer; he joked that he was the „best paid interpreter in the world“ and tried to make business deals with Firtash. Parnas was arrested together with Igor Fruman, wo also has Sowjet and Jewish background and met with Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani when they had a one-way ticket from Washington to Vienna. The Department of Justice links Firtash to Russian organized crime (which he of course denies) and fights for his extradiction from Austria. This is based on charges of racketeering and bribery concerning a deal between Boeing and Firtash in 2006 on Indian Titanium minesFirtash is accused of bribing Indian officials in 2006 with 18,5 Million Dollars to get access to the material which is vital for aerospace industries.

Though the Boeing-India deal where he was the middleman never was realized it sheds light on events in the background. Later on former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer was among those who lobbyed for former Firtash-supported Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and „by chance“ the Austrian Defense Ministry after that fought against Airbus. Not only Paul Manafort, whose ties to Firtash (and Russian-Jewish oligarch Oleg Deripaska) go back several years, was lobbying for Ukraine. On board we find the Podesta Group, a former lobbyist for Boeing, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin and after the Ukrainian regime change for Russian Sberbank. The US law firm Skadden contributed a dossier about Yulia Tymoshenko and the lobbying firm FTI Consulting was involved too. In 2011 Tymoshenko sued Firtash and Manafort in US civil court for a joint 885 Million Dollar real estate project is part of a larger money laundering operation. Gusenbauer formed the „Hapsburg Group“ with former EU Commission President Romano Prodi (who was accused of working for the KGB by Alexander Litvinenko) and former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski (who allegedly worked for former Polish secret police).

Trump, Boeing and Airbus

 

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